Title: Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice)
Author: Oima Yoshitoki
Genre: Drama, school life, slice of life, romance
Publishing year: 2011
Volumes: 7
English edition
Price: $8 USD
Volumes: 7
Publisher:
Kodansha Comics
Translator:
Unknown (If you know, please tell me)
Year published:
2015
Rating:
★★★★★
Hello! I recently knew
about this manga because of the animated film that was a success in the
Japanese box office, I really want to watch it now that I finished reading the
manga.
Koe no Katachi tell us the story of Shoya, a kid that
tries to defeat boredom every day,
suddenly there is a transfer student in his
class, Shouko Nishiyama, she is deaf. Everyone in the classroom starts to bully
her, especially Shoya. They ignore her, write mean stuff to her, consider her a
burden, and break her hearings aids. One day the principal confronts all the
students because Shouko’s mom has complained to school about the missing
hearing aids, and they are really expensive. In that moment everyone accuses
Shoya as the responsible and the bully, and turn their backs on him. He starts
getting bullied by his old friends and now he knows what Shouko felt, but he
still hates her because he thinks everything was her fault. Shoya and Shouko
have a fight and she is transferred, but he is still being bullied by his
classmates. In middle school he is isolated because his ex-classmates told
everyone he was a bully; even in high school he still has no friends. Shoya
wants to kill himself, but before that he looks for Shouko to apologize to her
for everything he did… both will start a journey of friendship and forgiveness,
and Shoya will try to give her the things he took from her, to give her the
type of school life and friendship she could have had in elementary school.
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| Shouko introducing herself. |
Everything I described in the synopsis happens in the
first chapter, so it´s not a spoiler at all. I really don’t know where to start
with this manga, there are several interesting things in it and I liked it a
lot.
